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Throughout the week, the Iraqis poured reinforcements through the captured Iranian border town of Qasr-e-Shirin into the crucial southern theater where Iran's major oil facilities are situated. In the welter of claim and counterclaim, for example, the Iraqi officers repeatedly said their forces were on the verge of capturing Khorramshahr. Tehran called that particular claim a "hallucination" and insisted instead that the Iraqis were being forced to withdraw, leaving behind 16 tanks and armored personnel carriers and abundant stocks of ammunition. The truth, as foreign observers were able to establish at the scene, appeared...
...Wills '80. MATHER--Sarah Carpenter '81, John Gilbert '80, Maxine Pfeffer '81, Libby Pierpont '81, Elisabeth Rozen '81, Robert (Skip) Stern '81. NORTH HOUSE--Alexander Bok '80, Kim Jones '80, Sam Levin '81, Tom Prewitt '79. QUINCY--Betsy Adams '80, Scott Atherton '79, Robert Grady '79, Christopher Owens '81, Shirin Rajagopalan '80, Scott Starbird '79. SOUTH HOUSE--Ruben Alvero '80, Mark LaVergne '80, John Petropoulos '80, Nina Vogelfranger '80, Steve Winthrop '80. WINTHROP--Steve Brannan '79, Leslie Cornfeld '81, Dan Esty '81, Robert Inches '80, John Re Iman '79. WEST YARD--Drew Chuppe '82, Linda Drucker '82, Michael Lynton...
...Shirin (pronounced "Sheereen") was the child of a respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful...
...sans dire. He has been translated in German, I believe, by Friedrich von Schack, probably with German thoroughness and accuracy. Why did he not say more of Nizami, who celebrated the exploits of Alexander in a long epic called "Sekander-Kamed," and who, besides writing "Khosau and Shirin," wrote a most exquisite and touching love-episode, "Larli and Magnun," which takes about the same place in Persian literature as do "Abelard and Eloisa," "Petrarch and Laura," in the literature of France and Italy? "Larli and Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi...